Gary Larson - There's a Hair in My Dirt!: A Worm's Story

Pros: good story and drawings, important lesson

Cons: none

Review: Gary Larson uses his trademark dark humor and drawings, so familiar to us from the "Far Side" strip, to address some pretty tough concepts in ecology.

The main point of the story cannot be emphasized enough: Nature is not a cute...

Pros: Very funny. Witty, powerful look at the nature of Nature.

Cons: A little too much expositional dialogue

Review: Gary Larson, creator of the immensely popular Far Side comics, has extended his one-line visual jokes into a picture book. It is the story of a family of worms, which has a son who has yet to understand his lot in life. He hates being a worm, being...